29/01/2004 | WITH a total yarding of 3960 head at Gracemere, values remained fully firm throughout. It was a good quality yarding, comprising 2060 steers, 1390 heifers, 410 cows, 100 cows and calves and 60 bulls. Cattle were drawn from Clermont, Moranbah,
29/01/2004 | RAINFALL throughout the drawing area leading up to market did not help to improve numbers at Mareeba last week with only slightly more cattle were yarded than the previous sale. Local butchers and a number of wholesalers only currently support th
29/01/2004 | THE North Queensland beef industry kicked off 2004 with a bang at the Big Country Brahman Sale in Charters Towers on Monday and Tuesday, as confidence in the cattle market helped push top prices to beyond last year's levels. Monday's big bidding d
29/01/2004 | THE first Roma prime sale since the holidays attracted 403 head and much better prices than pre-Christmas levels for all descriptions. Bullocks sold to 196c/kg and $1500/head, cows to 157c and $1000 and bulls to 163c and $1400. Bullocks over 550kg
29/01/2004 | SUGAR industry policy has come to the fore in the election race, with both major parties handing down their plans on what needs to be done to assist the industry. National-Liberal Coalition leader Lawrence Springborg released his nine-point action
29/01/2004 | By STACEY MILNER IN Cloncurry, it is hot - damn hot. In fact, until recently it was hot enough to earn the steamy north-west Queensland community the not-so- sought-after title of Australia's hottest town. But a glitch in data collection in
29/01/2004 | SALEYARDS selling across North Queensland is yet to move into full swing as the rain of recent weeks continues to bog tracks and encourage beef producers to hold on to stock that bit longer. The Charters Towers sale was again put back, while rain
15/01/2004 | AS the United States and Canada get swept up in the latest BSE outbreak, the Australian beef industry can't help but feel a little optimistic. Meat and Livestock Australia marketing services manager Peter Barnard said although it may be too early
15/01/2004 | THE heat is back on the cattle market as auctioneers kick-start another year in the saleyards with a hearty 'Sale O!' Despite doubt from a cross-section of observers about its ability to withstand the drought, decreasing live export numbers and a
15/01/2004 | CRAMMING too many bananas into one container soon turns solid fruit into a thick banana custard. Similarly, banana growers across the north are watching their industry become bogged in this custard state. Australia as a whole has become too sma
15/01/2004 | SOLID rains have bolstered spirits throughout the north over the past week in the face of BSE and dollar value woes. And with a the books filling up for the sales ahead predictions of the northern market's reaction to the events of 2004
15/01/2004 | A SYSTEMATIC fattening operation set up near Blackwater, reinforced with reliable water, will go to auction at the end of next month. Kullanda is situated 60km south of Blackwater and 60km north of Rolleston, and will go under the hammer on Februa
15/01/2004 | THE spate of turbulence on the global beef and economic stage has made the fortune of the nation's live export industry over the next 12 months a tough one to read. A soaring Australian dollar, the United States BSE outbreak and persistent drought
15/01/2004 | IT was widely thought the sale of Stanbroke signified a step forward for the Queensland cattle industry, when a contingent of North and Central Queensland graziers joined with two significant businessmen and bought Australia's largest pastoral holdin
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